VOICESof VELLORE
SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDING 2 014 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
New York, NY
vellorecmc.org
Autumn 2015
Strategic Partners with a Global CMC Dear Friends of CMC Vellore, Welcome to this Special Edition of Voices of Vellore that includes our Audited Financial Statements for 2014. As you will read in Dr. Honorine Ward’s message, we took a step back this year and evaluated all of our activities and financial policies to ensure that we remain on mission, good stewards of the funds entrusted to us, and of course a relevant partner for CMC. The result of all this is the Board Resolution you will read on page 3 – unanimously passed at our Annual Meeting. Dr. Sunil Chandy and our new Board representative from CMC Dr. Anil Kuruvilla attended that meeting and inspired all of us with their dynamic vision of a global CMC. As Dr. Chandy reminded us “... (the Foundation’s) role as resource generator and face of CMC in the US has led to enormous enrichment for our institution. The Foundation has also facilitated collaborative research, clinical attachments, goodwill between the US and CMC Vellore. These activities will continue to have a major impact in the proposed change paradigms that CMC is defining for itself… having the Foundation as CMC’s voice in the US will have huge significance in the context of the Institution’s own growth plans…Presence of a body like the Foundation will then become pivotal.”
You made 2014 our most successful year in individual giving in more than a decade! With your continued help, we will meet the evolving priorities that Dr. Chandy has outlined for us. From Dr. Ida S. Scudder’s one-room clinic opened in 1900 to a world-renowned, prestigious medical school and hospital, donations from the US have made a real impact on CMC’s leadership. Your generosity will help keep CMC one step ahead in clinical care, research, risk-taking and pioneering… Ida Scudder’s prayerful vision. Please join your fellow alumni, family and friends and make your giving to CMC a priority. If you have not become a donor, please do so today! Because of you, we are true strategic partners with a global CMC! Thank you!
Katherine D. Guenther, President Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation, Inc.